Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To provide a helmet to work with the Massiff Blast Armor
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Manufacturer: Lucerne Personal Defense
Model: Vornskr Blast Helmet
Affiliation: Galactic Alliance, Silver Jedi, Directorate, Closed-Market
Modularity: Sensor & Comlink mounts
Production: Mass-Produced.
Material: Duraplast outer shell, ceraglass visor, thermal gel internal lining cushion, Reifflex cellular padding, duranex straps & neck gaiter
Classification: Multipurpose Combat Helmet
Weight: Average
Resistances
-Kinetic: Average
-Lightsabers: Average
-EMP/ION: Average
-Elemental: Low
SPECIAL FEATURES
Modular Sensor Mount: Vornkyr's left side has an external mount that allows it to mount and integrate various sensors or sensor supplements into the helmet's integrated NiteSite HUD. This can be anything from simple flashlights and holorecorders to more esoteric and advanced devices, such as medisensors or sonar mappers.
Modular Comlink Mount: Vornkyr's right side has an external mount that allows the helmet's tongue-activated comlink to be attached to or boosted by auxiliary comlinks or devices. Common choices are signal interceptors, HUSH-98 comlinks, SW-95 message transceivers, and electronic translators.
Rebreather/Atmospheric sealing: Like stormtrooper and mandalorian helmets, the Vornskr incorporates an integrated rebreather unit that has an adaptor that can be hooked to external life support systems. It also contains a duranex neck gaiter which hermetically seals the user's head from the outside atmosphere in conjunction with the rest of the helmet.
Annunciator: Like many battle helmets, the Vornskr has an annuniciator in order to allow the user to be easily heard.
Integrated NiteSite Sensor: Vornskr's ceraglass faceplate was largely designed around the NiteSite, allowing Lucerne Personal Defense to simply adapt a well-proven, open-source product to their own needs. It largely works in a manner similar to MFTAS on stormtrooper helmets, providing the user with assisted targeting and enhanced vision.
Adaptable: Vornskr is capable of being highly tailored to individual needs through using its external mounts. As an example, a medic in the wilderness may mount a medisensor in his sensor slot to better treat patients and a HUSH-98 to transmit the same medical data to a distant hospital.
NiteSite: NiteSite provides an exceptional base HUD platform that can enhance a user's combat abilities and environmental situational awareness.
Exposed Subsystems: Externally mounting systems gives users exceptional flexibility, but it also makes them more likely to be damaged than many systems on other battle helmets.
Large Visor: Vornskr has a larger visor than many of its competitors. While this allows it to use NiteSite to its fullest capabilities, the ceraglass visor is also not as durable as the rest of the helmet, making it a notable weak point in the armor.
The Vornskr Blast Helmet is a breather blast helmet designed to be sold in conjunction with Massiff Blast Armor, though it can be used as a standalone unit. Using a moderately thick, reinforced duraplast outer shell and internal thermal gel liner provide its users with adequate but not particularly impressive protection from a variety of threats. Rather, its main selling point instead has been in its electronics. While its integrated NiteSite HUD is competitive with the MFTAs found commonly in stormtrooper helmets, its biggest advantage was taking advantage of its input ports by fitting the helmet with a pair of external mounts. The left-sided mount can accept a variety of sensory devices. Most soldiers typically use it to mount helmet-cams, lights, and targeting lasers, but specialized troops and private owners often customize for very specific purposes: it's not unusual to see a medic equipping a medisensor to it or a bounty hunter to use a TeleSonic audio pickup to better track prey. The right-side mount hooks up to the helmet's own integrated comlink, which most users believe needs upgrading from stock: the integrated comlink is exceptionally compact and inexpensive, but it also makes it extremely short-ranged (~2 kilometers). With a little work, a second comlink that can be mounted and directly wired to the tongue-toggled unit. This allows users to incorporate a variety of comlinks or other attachments like signal interceptors or electronic translators to better suit their individual needs.
While these electronics are perhaps its greatest strength, they are also the source of most of its weaknesses. The modular mounts are external, which was a necessity in order to integrate a variety of unusual shapes that devices can come in, but this also makes them much more susceptible to damage compared to those of traditional battle helmets like stormtrooper helmets which integrate these features within the helmet itself. The one major electronic piece within the helmet itself, the NiteSite, requires a fairly large visor to use successfully. While this provides the user with a lot of information and a clear field of view if the helmet's electronic are knocked offline, it also makes it a larger and weaker target than the eye slits and visors of many other helmets.
While Vornskr may not be the most impressive battle helmet on the market in terms of raw performance, it is probably among the most adaptable. Lucerne Personal Defense expects that it will be able to sell the Vornskr not only to militaries and security forces that purchase the Massiff Blast Armor, but also to bounty hunters looking to customize their gear in search of their next quarry.
